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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
The last time I featured Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan I had a messed up Ricardo Montalban getting some goop dabbed on his face from his final moment of seeming triumph in death against Admiral (Admiral? Admiral!) Kirk and his prized ship.
Today I feature legendary effects man Ken Ralston as he fingers a Chekov’s ear. Well, meaning he’s puppeting the dreaded Ceti eel out of a giant fake ear, but you know what I mean.
Another great glimpse behind the curtain on how they pulled off that kind of grotesque shot of Chekov fighting against the creature in his brain, making it come out of his ear canal. This picture kind of creeps me out, to be honest. Not Ken, he’s a handsome bearded fellow… and not even the creepy worm thing, but just how casually half a face is just hanging there like a skinned giant.
Thanks to reader Barry for sending the pic in! Here’s the image (click for bigger):

If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
In honor of the late producer Dino De Laurentiis tomorrow’s pic will feature a sexy shot of Jane Fonda!
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Would rather see photo of Melody Anderson from Flash Gordon, or Ornella Muti. Those two ladies really left an impression on a boy entering puberty to be sure.
Nice to see just how much of 'Chekov' was created for that worm shot, always wondered how much was rendered for that.

...is kind of like saying the first Sex Pistols album was poorly produced from an audiophile standpoint.<p>In other words, it's to somewhat miss the point. We all know the shot, we all remember it and can call it readily to mind, and it's made an indelible impression.<p>I'm sure there are much better effect shots in blockbusters this year that no one will ever care about or remember.

Just sayin' That damn bug killed Marla McGivers!! Poor gal spends the day getting slapped around by Khan, decides to go live on an isolated planet with him, and then is killed by a fucking ear wig. How sad it that?

It would have been kinda funny if Khan didn't die before the Enterprise got away and the device exploded. Can you imagine, he's looking at the viewscreen and the Enterprise goes to warp and yells "KIIIIIRRRRKKKK" and realizes he just got all his people killed for nothing...however, I think it's better that he died thinking he got revenge - although he did get all his people killed. I like that Khan is sort of a tragic character since he has a starship, a planet maker(or destroyer) and he doesn't really care about starting an empire somewhere he's just super pissed off at Kirk and that trumps any ambitions he has. My biggest problem with the movie stems somewhat from the Space Seed beginnings - I mean, would you, for example, send these guys to a planet and not keep constant tabs on them to make sure they don't try anything? Put a listening post in orbit or something?

Kirk SHOULD have checked on him, or at least someone from Starfleet could have. On the flipside, it's possible Kirk flubbed the records from the Botany Bay incident and didn't include the fact that he summarily stranded them in the Ceti Alpha system so Starfleet didn't know. Anyway, I think Khan does have a bit of a legitimate beef which makes his character mildly sympathetic. But then he murders a lot of people and loses all sympathy.

Well, its also possible things got lost in the bureaucracy - if you figure in Space Seed that the Enterprise was one of twelve starships at the time and maybe it was a bit off the beaten path, and that Ceti Alpha 5 was in a remote backwater, maybe Kirk filed his report and went on his way and nobody went and checked on it. After all, when the Reliant goes there looking for a place for the Genesis device, it seems like they have been looking around for remote star systems with no life forms - which would seem to indicate that no starship had been near the system since Kirk. I can't see a starship captain leaving this info out of his log or reports - I have trouble figuring that Starfleet wouldn't have a collective freakout that survivors of the Eugenics wars were loose and on a planet somewhere - I would expect that the planet would be quarantined to prevent exactly what happened to the Reliant. After all, Khan did take over the Enterprise - I guess the confusion by the Reliant over which planet it was kind of explains this but it seems a bit of a stretch...

you dont just leave a group of dangerous people who tried to hijack one of your ships in a deserted and unexplored planet without someone supervising them at least.<br />
<p>What if some spaceship which had never heard of the incident,landed there and Khan managed to hijack it this time?<br />
<p>and another thing that really doesnt make any sense is that the Federation left them in that planet completely alone,with very few resources,tools and medicines,not even weapons for protection to create a new world there.<br />
<p>hell they didnt even left them a radio (attuned to a specific federation secure frequency) so that Khan could ask for help in cases of emergency ie his wife,which happened to be an ex starfleet officer, got sick and needed immediately surgery or the most obvious one when Seti 6 exploded.<br />
<p>the above things dont settle well with the general philosophy and policy of the Federation to protect and help all the intelligent beings and not to exile them as a way of punishment in a deserted and unexplored planet without even a sufficient amount of the basic means for survival.<br />
<p>as i said it is bad writing in a rather mediocre episode which happened to have a very fascinating villain.

Knew it was a model, of course...but thought it was MUCH tinier than that! Love the practicality! <p>
Now...BRING ON BARBARELLA! <p>
Hopefully, this will be the first NSFW BtSPotD....showing Miss Fonda getting fingered!

Either take all the genetically engineered supermen who tried, and temporarily succeeded, off to a starbase and hope to hell they don't get lose again and start trying to take over the fuckin' universe, or appeal to Khan's vanity, say it's an "untamed world" for him to conquer, and then Get The Fuck Out once they're there. As I said, Khan does have a bit of a legitimate beef but it does also seem that Kirk was simply trying to get rid of them in the cleanest way aside from just shooting them out the airlock en masse.

Superior ability breeds superior ambition and all that. Also, if Kirk was smart and dug through the historical archives, he would have seen that Archer on the NX-01 had a hellova time dealing with the augments about 100 years ago and that all ended in death and tears, so go the easy way out and simply ditch Khan and never look back.

So like Trek 2 didn't happen, and someone lands on AC5 and Kahn takes over the ship, and he tracks down kirk and he is suprised becuase kirks in a bird of frikkin prey, but he still chases him down and together they both travel into the past as they travel around the sun to go back in time to gets some whales. Khans ship crashes in the artic he fins the fortress of solitude he figures out the crystals reads the messages Jor-el left for supreman and he turns himself invincible like superman, then he flys away to find kirk. Khan breaks lots people and shit on the hunt superman goes after him and kirk obviously gets involved as well.